Go to this link to read the article by Kelsey Clark in KTAR News. Some excerpts from the article:
"Our research has shown that bilingual children have more advanced ability to solve problems in which there is misleading perceptual information than comparable monolingual children who are otherwise at about the same developmental stage," She wrote on the York University website.
Lakoff continued to say that speaking multiple languages will also increase an individual's ability to score better on standardized tests, and also strengthen their memory skills for remembering lists or sequences. Mulitlinguals tend to be more perceptive to their surroundings, and they can better resist surrounding distractions.
